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Entrepreneurs in Training | Fail Your Way To A Freedom Lifestyle | Create Online Businesses


EIT 052: Birthday Special! 8 Lessons From a Year of Entrepreneuship and Podcasting

June 26, 2015

Show notes: www.entrepreneursintraining.net/52
We made it a whole year! Our glorious struggle has brought us to our EIT birthday. Celebrate with us as we reflect on what we've experienced and learned. We ask ourselves 8 questions you may (or may not) find useful, about our first year of entrepreneurship and podcasting. Plus, there's champagne involved.
A year in from zero: A few milestones
If you've listened to the show, you know all this already. But here's a (non-exhaustive) summary of major events over the past year:

My dad died, right at the beginning of our journey.
We "launched" (i.e. started) a blog about gathering the table around the family meal. It was called Making Meal Time. It lasted a few months.
We started to pursue an online yoga business- it's still in the works.
Our second child, Wes, was born (now he's 5 months old).
Catherine quit her job, deciding to work solely on the entrepreneur facet and be a work-at-home mom.
Largely to help with expenses (advancing to financial freedom), we moved from near the heart of Nashville to the suburbs in nearby Mount Juliet, TN.

8 Questions From Our First Year of Entrepreneurship
Here are questions we answer on the show. Afterward we reflect on a few things in general, too.

What has been the most rewarding part of the past year?
What has been the hardest?
What’s one thing that’s different about you now as a result of going down this path?
What has been most surprising?
What would you say has been the most impactful/important thing we’ve done?
What did you try that just didn’t work for you?
Most valuable thing you’ve learned about working with your spouse?
What would be your advice to you a year ago?